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New comment by flyingshelf in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

flyingshelf — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:37:42 +0000

Where is it not a thing? Japan?

New comment by flyingshelf in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

flyingshelf — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:10:13 +0000

You guys can downvote all you want. If you don't already realize this you'll realize soon enough.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

flyingshelf — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:12:09 +0000

> AI-assisted coding, on the other hand, rekindled my passion for computers.

AI-assisted coding isn't a thing. Why would anyone pay you to code when your competitor spends 1 minute spelling out a problem and doing the same thing for 59 more problems?

As far as I'm concerned coding is dead as a profession, now we are Harness Managers.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Feeling Sad about AI"

flyingshelf — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:08:23 +0000

> Unfortunately I am not sure the 'tech' industry will have a lot of use for me, pretty soon.

That's the core issue. Our time is running out pretty soon anyway. I have no intention of downgrading my lifestyle to the point of near homelessness, better be dead.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Feeling Sad about AI"

flyingshelf — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:20:58 +0000

This is basically me in 2026. Life has no meaning and I'm waiting for my money to run out before I end it. Hopefully I can find a job that doesn't bore me but I'm not positive.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe"

flyingshelf — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:51:29 +0000

And yet if you click export it will gladly print out a plaintext csv with your whole life in passwords. Doesn't even attempt to zip it with password or something.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

flyingshelf — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:52:07 +0000

I don't disagree, but it depends. Some files just don't stand alone and are related to each other.

"Stream" photo libraries of people who take pictures for work know this issue all too well: there's a lot of junk mixed with their personal photos. What if we had... folders: one personal and one for work or per customer.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:29:26 +0000

You didn't read past the title.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:28:59 +0000

You didn't read past the title.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:27:49 +0000

I think you're gonna lose a lot of comments here to the "Finder" word here. The problem is not the Finder but directories, which exist on all operating systems.

With that aside, this is a great idea for most files. Of course my images are still in folders with the projects they belong to, but my life photos are in one stream. Files, contacts, a lot of data would benefit greatly from this visualization.

As for people with 1000 files on their desktop, who cares, they are as good as hoarders and they get what it comes to them. Discipline helps both in the real and in the digital world.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:27:36 +0000

What I mean is that the browser has exceptions for Google and that most likely not all code paths follow the user settings. Still a bug though.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:56:36 +0000

I wouldn't say false especially when quoting the whole sentence. What you suggest is so rare (worldwide) it might as well be false. It's such a bad idea for the airline to ship your bags before the passenger makes it onto the plane.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:23:02 +0000

Mind sharing what the incident was? Carrying too many valuables?

New comment by flyingshelf in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:21:05 +0000

FWIW your bags may still occasionally travel without you (but you still have to board A flight)

New comment by flyingshelf in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:19:25 +0000

Someone is paying for it, which is what we're arguing about.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:16:11 +0000

When you log into Google, you also log into Chrome. This means that you'll have a lot of exceptions for Google websites or else a "clear history" would log you out of Chrome.

Not justifying it (I don't use chrome) but that's likely what's happening here.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

flyingshelf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:08:37 +0000

> Please contact support in order to

Yikes

New comment by flyingshelf in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

flyingshelf — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:28:24 +0000

That's a lie. 9€ is not the max you pay, it's metered and extra traffic costs extra. So what you said about others can just as well apply here.

What I see is some homemade service that costs $125/year and has little to show for it. There's nothing about what it offers on the website, the homepage has a handful of words. It claims "CDN" but doesn't say anything about what the exit points are. All I see is two "datacenters" in Northern Europe on the status page.

Heck even the CDN is in "private beta" so what are we paying for exactly? Lots of services in Europe are already available for 2-5€/month for the current level of service.

What I see is a 9€ ask for a list of promises. That's too much.

New comment by flyingshelf in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

flyingshelf — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:32:10 +0000

Is that why even Google Docs has version control?

New comment by flyingshelf in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

flyingshelf — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:02:57 +0000

Netlify and vercel have a generous free tier, I never paid a dime. What you might eventually pay for in those services is the exceptional DX, which this amateurish service will never get close to.

All this to say that 9€/month is way too expensive.